Saturday, October 11, 2008

You may have noticed a change on our website. No? Well, what we have decided to do going forward is show stock levels of our jewelry in inventory. Once those are sold out, they will no longer appear on our website. There are a couple of reasons for this change. As you know, Shauna and I make every piece of jewelry by hand. We are not in the business of mass produced jewelry; there's enough of that out there, don't you think?

We have so many ideas for new pieces and it's easy to get caught up making the same ones over and over again. Since it's only Shauna and myself, it's easy to understand that we want to focus on moving forward with new ideas instead of becoming stagnant. We have certain pieces that we will continue to make but we want to allow ourselves more time to be creative.

With this in mind, we will be presenting our jewelry as collections or limited edition pieces. This will allow our creativity to flow more freely and present to our loyal customers a larger selection of jewelry to choose from.

Welcome to the Alone Star Jewelry Blog!

Alone Star Jewelry is just another native Texan created by sisters Lisa Kirkeby and Shauna Sopel, born and bred in the state with the greatest shape in the union. Originally from Mansfield, our family moved down to Austin in 1966 and remained in central Texas for a couple of decades. Since then we have collectively lived and traveled in other parts of the state including the east Texas piney woods, the desert and mountain regions out west, down in the valley and across the coastal plains, and it’s from all these beautiful slices of our state that inspiration is born for many of the jewelry pieces. Both of us have families, jobs, homes, lots of fun and a big creative spirit that we aspire to reflect in each piece of jewelry. God bless Texas!